Help II8 firmware? Do you have it? We need it :)

[Andronix]

Huh, tried unyaffsing from ii8 system.img?

 

[kam187]

Yeah i could do that, but i shouldnt have to

I guess nandroid is seeing this image isnt for this phone and not flashing the system.img

 

[Andronix]

I saw someone manualy erasing and extracting whole system partition.

 

[benner]

there seem to be a couple of people ready to help out with their ii8 firmware. could someone please explain to them what to do. i don't know how but i would love to try anything that might make this phone run better that it does.

 

[kam187]

I used unyaffs in the end. I still have no idea why restoring the system.img isnt enough :-/ Anyway you'll need the custom recovery, either 4.1 or 4.2 doesnt matter.

- Copy the system.img onto the root of your sdcard (mount it in windows, and drop it over)

- Boot into recovery

- open an adb shell
# adb shell

- remount system read/write
# mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock1 /system

- erase the system partition
# rm -rf /system/*

- Extract the system image:
# cd /system/
# unyaffs /sdcard/system.img

The boot images are identical, so there's no need to flash that over. You probably want to do a factory reset first to clear out your data partition etc. You can take a nandroid backup first of course in case you want to revert back.

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MemTotal: 95976 kB
MemFree: 27492 kB
Buffers: 44 kB
Cached: 23568 kB

So just over 51mb free with NPS processes killed. Stock with all _Tasks_ killed its about 43mb free

 

[pegasus21]

Would have been easier to make an update.zip file. Just use signapk to sign the update.zip once compressed. Modify the update script from one of the existing update.zip files already available.

 

[kam187]

Yeah couldnt be bothered right now There doesnt seem to be much worth updating for to be honest.

 

[pegasus21]

LOL I see. Guess we'll just wait for something that has baseband and all.

 

[hippy]

Does II8 fix the 3D issue? II5 broke 3D and stuff like SpeedForge, right?

 

[tisti]

Does II8 fix the 3D issue? II5 broke 3D and stuff like SpeedForge, right?

that has been broken since g8

 

[Clandes]

I have H2 firmware and 3d does not work properly

 

[boomtopper]

- remount system read/write
# mount -o rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock1 /system

Ok I've had a try a doing this and I got device in use errors. So I found that if I did this first before the command above, the rest of it worked:-

umount /dev/block/mtdblock1

Also while removing /system it complained it could not remove lost+found. I then continued with the unyaffing of system.img which completed with no error.

I've got the system back up and running and had a look at build.prop file and it does mention II8 so it looks like I've got it up and running.

 

[kam187]

You always need to do the remount since its mounted read only. You need the recovery console because rm -rf /system/* on the running system is not wise!

 

[andreas81]

You always need to do the remount since its mounted read only. You need the recovery console because rm -rf /system/* on the running system is not wise!

Just a quick question here from a potential android and galaxy buyer (me):

All these commands remind me strongly about linux commands, and in regards to rooting a phone I was wondering how/where you are practically typing them, as in:

1: Do you somehow hack the phone, get a shell so you can write those commands there, straight on the phone?

or

2: You have the phone connected to your computer, and use some sort of program to remotely issue these commands on the phone?

Sorry bout the offtopic post from a newbie hope you don't mind.

// Andreas

 

[pegasus21]

Both methods are available.

1. Use a terminal emulator program on the phone.

2. Use adb with a phone connected via usb.

But I think you should consider the htc android phones too since htc is better at android than samsung.

 

[kam187]

The main advanatge of the galaxy is that its not security locked. That means you can always root it easily by modifying the stock recovery, and flashing it on the device. You can also upgrade/downgrade firmware at will.

HTC devices are usually security locked, and so you usually need an exploit to root them.

 

[andreas81]

Both methods are available.

1. Use a terminal emulator program on the phone.

2. Use adb with a phone connected via usb.

But I think you should consider the htc android phones too since htc is better at android than samsung.

And what exactly is adb? Some kind of software-hacking package?

// Andreas

 

[pegasus21]

ADB aka Android Debugging Bridge or something like that.

It's a program in the android sdk that allows you to do nifty stuff with either an android emulator or an android device. Things like putting and getting files on the phone... opening a shell. If you do get an android phone, very likely you'll end up using it if you know that it even exists. It's also used in debugging programs on your phone. Seems like in 2.0, they added profilling features to help you optimise your apps. I really would love to get that.

 

[kam187]

Ok I've had a try a doing this and I got device in use errors. So I found that if I did this first before the command above, the rest of it worked:-

umount /dev/block/mtdblock1

Also while removing /system it complained it could not remove lost+found. I then continued with the unyaffing of system.img which completed with no error.

I've got the system back up and running and had a look at build.prop file and it does mention II8 so it looks like I've got it up and running.

I just read this thread again and noticed i totally missed what you meant. Yeah i had a typo, it should be rw,remount

Edited the post!

Also yeah the lost and found thing is fine, ignore it

 

[carthesis]

Is there any update on the II8 firmware?

Have there been any discoveries of improvements? I must admit, I'm using II5 + Galaxhero, and I've noticed a few problems, such as:

1) it's turning itself on and off again
2) it drops text messages sometimes (I didn't get all the footy results through last night - i recieved one text out of six)
3) sometimes the screen decides to not respond
4) infrequently, the call end button decides not to respond

 

[Pizak]

4) infrequently, the call end button decides not to respond

This could be an hardware fault. I had to return my first phone for this (call, hangup and menu button sometimes not responding).

And otherwise, Galaxyhero is totally not worth it. It's quite a bit slower then II5 and H8. The only nice part is the default root acces and some of the ui looks.

I would like to see the II8 extracted though, shouldn't be too hard with all the nordics having this firmware?

 

[pegasus21]

II8 has been extracted... at least the system folder. I don't know if it's possible to extract the amss though. It's possible to extract the boot partition through nandroid.

 

[kam187]

Boot for II5 and II8 is the same. I uploaded the system partition above

Someone make an update file to make it easier.

 

[MichaelW]

And otherwise, Galaxyhero is totally not worth it. It's quite a bit slower then II5 and H8.

Really? Can't say I've noticed it being slower... unless you enable compcache that is.

 

[Pizak]

Really? Can't say I've noticed it being slower... unless you enable compcache that is.

Compcache doesn't give any advantage indeed. But for me, whenever I come back from an memory intensive app it takes much more time to get the icons back on the homescreen (I don't have widgets) and bigger apps like the browser launch slower.

Also there are 3 useless apps in Galaxyhero with the worst being Quickdroid which is always using between 20-50% cpu. My battery life has also become worse because of this. (see this link: http://androidforums.com/samsung-i7500/12127-galaxhero-rom-slower-than-thought.html)